A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals.
Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals."
-A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among their members.
-A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback.
-A discourse community utilizes and possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.
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